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E MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
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| By: |
Brian Webb, Peyton Skipwith |
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Hardback |
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£12.50 |
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£10.31 |
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£2.19 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1851495207 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781851495207 |
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| Publisher: |
ACC ART BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 2007 |
| Series: |
Design |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
Kauffer designed some of the most striking and influential advertising graphics of the 1920s and 1930s. This new title in the Design series contains over 150 illustrations, many from original artworks, and work not before reproduced. |
| Synopsis: |
Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was the most celebrated graphic designer working in Britain in the twentieth century. Born in Montana, he left America before the first world war to travel throughout Europe absorbing the influences of the Cubists and the German poster artist Ludwig Hohlwein. At the onset of war he settled in London. Seeing himself as a painter, he allied himself with the London Group and the Vorticists. He worked at Roger Fry's Omega Workshops with Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and in 1915 was commissioned by Frank Pick, then the publicity manager at London Underground. This was the beginning of a client-designer relationship that lasted throughout the 1920s and '30s, only ending when Kauffer returned to New York in 1940. His posters, brilliantly coloured and strikingly modern, struck London like a Cubist thunderbolt. Soon other clients, Jack Beddington at Shell, Sir Colin Anderson at the Orient Shipping line, the Daily Herald (the instantly recognisable Birds in Flight pos |
| Illustrations: |
150col. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
ACC Art Books |
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Returnable |
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